Is there reason for Hope?

Consider the following:

If you study Life on this planet (not the theories, just the
evidence) from it's inception, you can find some interesting patterns
that seem to pass right over the heads of scientists. For one, it is
evident that Life on this planet has successfully adapted to, not
one, but many Mass Extinction Events (MEE), each time evolving more
complex ecosystems and individual species as a result. After the last
major MEE, the ecosystem evolved Humans. As a species, we are the
first to comprehensively understand Nature enough to apply natural
behavior of ecosystem substrata to the development of leverage we
call Technology.

If you study the evidence of all Human behavior throughout the last 5
million years, you can also come to some interesting conclusions.

First, we seem to have a fascination with getting off the planet,
traveling to other planets, and seeding life there. This is, IMHO,
the ecosystems desire to reproduce itself in places where it cannot
be threatened ALL AT ONCE by MEEs.

Second, we are steadily learning what is required to truly 'shepherd'
the ecosystem on this planet and protect it from certain kinds of
devastating MEEs, ie, asteroid collisions. (It is the only rationale
for our development of truly huge destructive forces, like nuke
weapons.)

Third, we have a common behavioral pattern that is essentially
peaceful and productive, and inherently ecologically sane, which is
coerced by purely conceptual social systems into a vastly lower level
of production and higher level of self-defeating environmental
destruction. Almost every civilization has defeated itself due to
environmentally destructive practices, from Egypt to Rome to China...
But at any time Humanity could abandon the social forces which cause
that destruction and survive even more successfully and in an
ecologically sane way... and keep our technologies.

Fourth, that almost all the causes of Human created disaster comes
from belief systems of all ilk, regardless of what it is called, from
religion to politics to personally accepted philosophies. The result
of conceptual 'beliefs', in the actions and non-actions of
individuals working collectively, produces long term degradation of
both society and the environment. There is no evidence that 'beliefs'
are necessary or wise.

Fifth, that long term survival for both the ecology of the planet and
Humanity, integrally part of that ecology, is in dropping conceptual
social systems, including the commonly held 'beliefs'
and 'philosophies' that make the systems possible, and going only by
actions and the results of actions.

My conclusion: We are evolved to become integrated into a new and
comprehensive niche in the ecology... and we shall find that niche or
the gamble of the ecology in evolving us will produce a sterile world.

Will we survive to take that niche? I think we are evolved to take
that niche. I think we are in a re-integration phase of our
evolution, from an instinctive level of cognition of non-
understanding of natural processes to where we are starting to
understand conceptually what processes are relevant and what is not.
This phase is, I think, over a million years old, but in ecological
time, that is a blink of an eye. So I have more than hope but less
than certainty that we will do far more than just survive.

Peace,
-Roan